Dear Colleagues, I’m writing to share my new paper, “Governing Policy Experiments in Chinese Cities: Lessons on Effective Climate Mitigation,” recently published in the Policy Studies Journal. It may be of interest for your research or teaching.
Link to paper: http://doi.org/10.1111/psj.70026 How do politics shape the outcomes of policy experiments? This paper compares Chinese cities with similar goals and starting conditions—participating in the same centrally-sponsored experiments—but achieving divergent decarbonization outcomes. Two key points: 1. Concurrent trials are common. Unlike the typical model, where one trial is run at a time, Chinese localities often conduct overlapping policy experiments simultaneously. These concurrent trials interact in ways that complicate causal inference, yet they remain underexplored in existing scholarship. 2. The paper introduces a replicable procedure to address this challenge. Using a case-comparative analysis of Hangzhou and Xiamen, it shows that leadership priorities and policy coherence—not just formal authority—are critical for effective climate mitigation. Best, Victoria ---------- Shiran Victoria Shen Senior Research Scholar, Precourt Institute for Energy Faculty Affiliate, Center on China’s Economy and Institutions Stanford University http://svshen.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "gep-ed" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to gep-ed+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/gep-ed/PH0PR14MB4487E077C6AADF8C723A163FA8BC2%40PH0PR14MB4487.namprd14.prod.outlook.com.
